#faunist

[birder-of-remnant]

What is Yang's True Color?

This question has been bothering me for some time. Colors are important to all the characters, particularly for the main cast. For RWB, they each have their more obvious primary color which is the basis of their original character designs and their names. But these colors, while integral to their identity, generally have darker and more subtle connotations based on past trauma. As the series progresses, they all gain a secondary color that becomes more emblematic of who they actually are.

For Ruby, her principal color is obviously red. But it also (at least to some extent) represents her grief and resentment over her mother, as illustrated by the iconic line 'Red like roses fills my dreams' (yes I know the songs are not canonical, but v7-v9 also supports this point). Ruby's secondary color is of course silver, which represents her devotion to protecting those important to her.

Weiss's principal color in the beginning is white. This may represent her isolation, loneliness, and her naivety regarding how others see the world (for example, the faunists) stemming from her vaunted position in high Atlesian society. It may also have connections with the cold abuse and neglect she received from her family. During the Anima Arc, her color transitioned from white to greyish blue. Then for the Solitas Arc, she finally embraced blue as her new color, representing her more diversified perspective.

For Blake, her long hair, concealing ribbon, and black color scheme were meant to represent how she wished to hide from the world. This distrust for society and for others stemmed from the atrocities she has seen and witnessed by society against people just for being faunists. And perhaps more poignantly, the abuse she received from Adam. As the series progresses, not only does she cut her hair and become more cheerful, but her color scheme transitions towards violet (which is also her aura's color). This also symbolizes how she has been able to overcome the trauma of her past and become someone better.

Then there is Yang. For her, it seems that yellow is yellow is yellow. And this does not seem to change. Yes, her eye color is violet as a reflection of Blake's aura (and vice versa) but that is symbolic of her love for Blake. Like the others, she has had to overcome trauma to become the person she is now. But unlike the others (or at least W+B), she does not seem to gain a secondary color representative of her true self. But, I guess she does not really need a new one. She isn't going to let her past haunts define her, especially now that she knows who she is.

[croziers-compass]

Summary Notes of Terror Camp 2023 (10.12.23)

(A small summary of notes and references I took during Terror Camp Day Two - Antarctic Exploration!)

Branwell's Death Narratives

Captain Scott - The narrative tilts. It tilts according to who's written it.

Vitai Lampada by Newbolt

The Book of the Long Long Trail - Newbolt

Scott Supporters vs Critics. Was he a fool or a misunderstood individual? Challenge the complexities with which a Narrative is design and revolved around. Interrogate the Narrative and where it came from!

Caitlin Branden

Personal Bias and Individual experiences steer your experience with a particular Polar Expedition

"A wonderful Evening"

Which Member of the Expedition Are You?

What attracts you to your Expedition? What about your Expedition draws you to it? What do you talk about when you talk about the Expedition of your Heart?

Rach

"Terrebus"

Narratology

"How do we frame the Narrative and How does the Narrative Frame us?"

"We cannot ask reason to take us across the Gulf of the absurd"

" The real Quest was the books we tried to write along the way " - R - The Discord Chat

"We all have our special little guys"

"Perhaps being haunted is part of being Human"

"Any Narrative can become dangerous if it becomes The Narrative. Be aware of the Biases off the Narrative you are writing. Take responsibility for the Narrative."

"Carry your little Guys in your pocket"

Emma J. P. - From the South Pole to the Stars

Incredible Parallels twixt the Astral Exploration of Space and the Antarctic / Polar Explorations with Antarctica being a simile for time spent off of Earth itself.

Empty and Vast

Roald's Narrative during the South Pole Expedition!

Sam Botz - The Feminine (?) Antarctic

"The Last Imaginary Place on Earth."

Antarctica The Woman - Stephanie Krzywonos

"Flying and Singing Like Sparrows" - Le Guin

Phil M. (linked to Patreon) (Paper Doll Polar Explorer's Sea Chest)

Ross and Crozier Expedition!

"They were Hut Mates"

Crozier Passed His Leftenant Exam at 21 in the year 1817 Ross and Crozier serving under William Perry

They Celebrated St. Patricks day!

McCormick is our Narrator through much.

"EVERYONE WAS WET"

⚓ Robert McCormick's geological collections from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, 1839–1843

⚓ (Ross Volume 1) Voyages of discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic seas and round the world [microform] : being personal narratives of attempts to reach the North and South Poles ⚓(Ross Volume 2) A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839-43

by Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862 (links to Archive for JCR)

⚓Cunninham's Transcribed Journal

⚓ (An X/Twitter Acc. that follows JCR Expedition)

Becca (I got pulled away so my notes are sparse here) "I'll be blowed."

Some of these Cold Boys should not have been there. (The Scientists) Elephant Island was quite the ordeal.

Clark, Hussey, Wordie, James, the Four Nations that did not live together in Harmony.

All in the Middle of the Great War.

"Nerdy and Outside the Narrative"

Meg - Cold off the Press

"You tried"

"Mr. Clark proved the faunistic richness of the coastal Antarctic Waters, but, unfortunately, all his collections were lost with the ship."

Hussey - "This Scientist is an outlier and should not be counted"

Avery S. - Oddments, Riff Raff, and Pocket Full of Rocks

Dancing on Ice Floes

Giving sea shells as gifts!

-The importance of Collecting was incredibly valuably psychologically. To collect these specimens meant that one would have to survive to deliver them. It also helped create routine

Trading Rocks for Tobacco.

“Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.” - Apsley Cherry-Garrard

"When you reach out to understand the world, even scientifically, you are reaching out to understand your place in it." - Avery S (Polar Exploration Conference Terror Camp 12.10.2023)

"How McClintock Of You" - The Discord Chat

Key Notes: With Francis Spufford and Sarah Airriess

(I was very invested in the conversations so I did not write as much as I would have liked. But some critical things really stood out to me.)

The Homosocial responses/responsibilities between the men. Care-giving and demonstrating tender roles with one another. 'Unexpectedly Gendered'

Francis has not seen The Terror

The way of Knowing these people is very unique. Reading their letters and their diaries provides a particular perspective allows you to know what they really were like - more than what their fellows may have known. You see a more intimate part of these explorers through their very personal narrations through their journals and letters.

"People are clouds of possible selves." - Francis Spufford He goes on to say something along the lines of: "Which is the problem with storytelling - as a narrator of storytelling you have to decide what comes out and what fades in the background of their personality."

"You have to decide as a Narrator." - Francis Spufford

Empathy as a Tool for Understanding

(This part was incredibly important to me.)

Sarah goes on to explain (thereabouts): You have to Listen to people. They (people writing or creating a Narrative/Narration of events) look at a historical figure and get a "snap" of them. From there they decide that they know everything about them. From there, it's like Cinderella's shoe and the step-sister cutting off parts of her foot to make it fit. You need to let these people liver and breathe as a dynamic person with feelings and thoughts. You have to be truthful. Otherwise you are doing that person a disservice and shoving them into a specific box that is meant to just fit your Narrative. You should try and be empathetic to the individual you are writing about as if they are still alive.

Spufford goes on to extrapolate on that with (thereabouts): Finding out what people meant to themselves is important. Some things you want to keep at arms lengths but still play an intrinsic role in their character. Being empathetic to these people is critical to respecting and acknowledging them with care and showing them that you care about them.

"Captain Scott is a Myth"

"The Unified Field Theory of Cold Men."

"Neurotypical people don't go to the Antarctic. Normal people are not drawn to the Antarctic."

Extra Important Links:

These are just some that I have saved from the Terror Camp. There were so many more but here is a handful.

Observations on ca. 175-year old human remains from Antarctica (Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, South Shetlands)

Cheer_Scott_expedition

Ursula K. Le Guin Books: The Wave in the Mind Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (thriftbooks link)

An Empire of Magnetism (Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism) - Dr Edward J. Gillin

A Game! "To Keep the Meat"

The Popularization of Science in Nineteenth-Century America - Hyman Kuritz

"Have You Been There?" Some Thoughts on (Not) Visiting Antarctica - ADRIAN HOWKIN

The Ship that Never Was: The Greatest Escape Story Of Australian Colonial History - Adam Courtenay (Goodreads Link)

Tristian's Wordpress of Franklin Expedition Content

Francis Spufford! ⚓ Sarah Airriess ⚓

The Music Track for Terror Camp ⚓

Book Recs from Crewmate @jesslovesboats (thank you)

Thank you so much for the experience! This weekend was fantastic!

Personal Notes and Commentary

This was my first Terror Camp in its entierty. The weekend was such a delight. I had no idea what sort of experience I would be having. It was beyond my expectations. I got to learn a lot more about some of the other Expeditions that I was not as familiar with as I would have liked to be. My book list has expanded by a decent number. Getting to listen to Nive Nielsen and Paul ready was incredible. I loved everything about this experience. I cannot wait for @terrorcamp to announce the next year's event. I will certainly be attending it without a doubt. I look forwards to future projects and staying in touch with anyone else that would like to. Thank you again for such a wonderful experience! I want to give a shoutout to the people I know of the Tumblr Urls that contributed: @brainyraccoons , @jckielantern , @nopickls , @wllipt (who was a captioner), @vivtanner , @inkonfreshnewpaper - I do not know if I missed anyone. I went through the Muster Book to check out who had tumblrs. If I missed you, please let me know. I had a fantastic time. Thank you all.

With love, In heart and spirit, Second Leftenant, Wilbur

[jemandtheholograms]

I bumped into something that some Jem and the Holograms fans who also play D&D and other table top RPGs might be interested in.

In issue #158 of Polyhedron (Which you can find here TSR Polyhedron Newszine) They have a D20 Modern Mini-Game called Hijinx which is a D20 Modern version of a Jem and the Holograms RPG.

They have classes like Vocalist, Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, Keyboardist, and Horn Player. With music styles like Bubblegum, Electronic/Rave, Hip-Hop, Metal, Punk, Progressive and Rock. And a who slue more stuff that scream Jem and the Holograms as an RPG. And all you would need is the D20 Modern Core Rulebook, paper, pencils and dice.

And if you want to add a bit more into it you can add the BESM D20 Revised Core Rulebook to it too since it has info for converting Dungeons and Dragons 3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder 1E and D20 Modern 1E to BESM D20 rules.

Basiclly what I am trying to say is...

THERE IS NOW A WAY TO PLAY A JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS TABLETOP ROLL PLAYING GAME!!!

I finally got to download everything and this would be faunistic!

[ariaacads]

🌸 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭

— Finally done with my Korean Client, this journey isn't easy though. As usual, I didn't expect this coming like the other international client reach me out since they formally invite me and offered a 1.4 Million Won and settled it on 1.8 Million Won instead so this is a real big deal.

Luckily, it's already approved and got a high score. The paper underwent a meticulous review process, and I am thrilled to share that it has been accepted with minimal revisions. This is a testament to the rigorous research and dedication that went into this project.

I vividly remember the initial contact from the client, which came through a professional email. It was an exciting moment when I read about their interest and their generous budget allocation for the project. From that point forward, the journey unfolded with vv smooth collab.

The paper scrubble around into the fascinating field of Faunistics Entomology, a topic that aligns seamlessly with my background as a medical student. Exploring the intricate world of insect fauna, the study aimed to contribute valuable insights to the broader scientific community. The process involved extensive literature review, fieldwork, and data analysis to ensure the robustness of our findings.

What made this task particularly special was the level of professionalism exhibited by the client. Their clear communication, respect for the research process, and willingness to invest in quality work made this collaboration both rewarding and memorable. It's gratifying to see the successful completion of a project that not only meets but exceeds expectations.

[odkrycia-nauce-i-foldery-online]

Natural history & conservation in according to central european conditions

Autoryteci i interesariusze praktyk przyrodoznawczych,

Idea Konsorcjum z historii naturalnej (znanej szerzej jako natural history & conservation) przyświecała mi od dawna. Dążeniem zaś jest integracja polskiego środowiska związanego z praktykami przyrodoznawczymi. Inicjatywy z historii naturalnej powinny więc przyświecać podróżnikom czy towarzystwom przyrodniczym zaangażowanym w praktyki nad środowiskiem naturalnym. Myślę, że pierwszym krokiem byłoby utworzenie platformy informacyjno-publikacyjnej //Natural history & Conservation//. 

Liczę na rozległą współpracę w dziedzinie podnoszenia świadomości, jak również budowania potencjału w dziedzinie praktyk przyrodoznawczych (e.g. mineralogia stosowana, zrównoważony rozwój, leśnictwo silviculture par excellence i agroforestry, krypto-zoologia). Jeśli zaś ktoś czuje się urażony tą kwestią, niechaj zatem zignoruje ten tekst. Nie to bowiem przyświecało mi w tym piśmie. Kierujmy się dobrymi praktykammi, które są właściwe. Będę rad za przekazanie dalsze tego wątku.

Czekam na reakcyje i kwestie współpracy ws. wyżej wymienionego pisma, z przyrodniczym Darz Bór, Tomasz Q. Pietrzak, Luchowicz Gabinet, prywatna praktyka przyrodoznawcza.

słowa kluczowe: conservation x natural history x exploration x natural resources management x faunistics x biological samples x journeys x in situ investigation x ethnozoological protocol x nature and culture heritage x etc.

WYBRANE ODNIESIENIA:

//Bogda A. et al. 2010. Zasoby naturalne i zrównoważony rozwój. Wydawnictwo Uniw. Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu, 460 s. //Czekanowski J. et al. 1958. Ze wspomnień podróżników. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 332 s. //Pietrzak T. 2013-2015. In the search of unstudied animals. Prospectus online, unstudiedanimals.weebly.com

Załączam autorskie opracowanie udostepnione niekomercyjnie. (keep it private)//

[birder-of-remnant]

This is an incredible idea! You are right. Dam. There is a lot of potential with that. And with your response to the inevitable decision point that Blake would have to make.

Some details and thoughts that I can't stop thinking about:

What is Blake's position at the start? Does she truly believe that destroying Beacon and allying with Cinder will make the world better for faunists? Or is it something she is being manipulated or pressured into doing? Adam is skilled at emotional manipulation. It is upsetting how much control people like this can have over their victims, how the sheer need for validation can cause people to act in irrational ways that they otherwise would not, regardless of how brilliant or rational they may be when their groomer isn't around. Or maybe Blake was fully on board with Adam's and Cinder's plan.

Did Blake purposely choose Yang to be her partner? Did someone choose for her and ensure it happened? Or was it just a life-changing coincidence? I would like to think that it was part of the plan to get close to someone with close ties with STRQ and, therefore, with Ozpin. Or maybe it was Blake's decision, something Yang had said to her before initiation, and somehow reached out to her in her pain. Maybe she was supposed to team up with Pyrrha so that she would be well-positioned to take down the champ when the time came but she went against orders and chose Yang in the Emerald Forest instead.

What drives the storyline? Much of v1-v2 is driven by Blake's obsession with the White Fang. Not that personal life events wouldn't be enough to sway someone or build an incredible relationship. But still. At the very least, I would love it if Yang still worked to convince Blake to go to the dance with her.

When does she start to turn? I can imagine that Blake's faith that this plan would bring any sort of equality or goodness for faunists would steadily erode over time. But who is it who convinces her to stay the course, and how? Is it Adam Shitlord Taurus and his social manipulation? Or is it Cinder? I can imagine one possible threat Cinder could make: go through with the plan or watch as Kuo Kuana burns. A high-density city made entirely of wood and other flammable materials, all jammed together? It would be a shame if someone with devastating fire magic was to set the town ablaze. And just like the London Fires, a massive blaze would be unstoppable. Some may escape to the seas, but it would be a death knell for everyone else. And anyone who survived the fire would be easy prey for the endless waves of grimm that would follow. Blake could not possibly run. No matter her side, she would have to watch the people she loves fall. A choice between her family and people, against the woman she loves and the community that has adopted her.

But it would not just be Yang and Blake who would be suffering. Imagine Weiss. Over time, she has grown to trust Blake. To cherish her friendship with her. To rethink her life and her views on faunists. But when she learns that Blake had used and manipulated her? Lied about no longer being in the White Fang? Worked to bring forth the Battle of Beacon and the massacre that followed?

Everyone else would be suffering too. I am unsure exactly how Ruby would react, but she would probably be the least inclined to blame Blake. If anything, it may break her faith in her own leadership early. How had she failed to realize that something was wrong with Blake and reach out sooner? If Juane lost Pyrrha, he may feel strong resentment towards Blake. Perhaps even blaming her more than Cinder (although less than he blames himself). Sun might just be confused and pissed. I'm not sure if he would be stalking her this time.

How much does everyone know during the Fall of Beacon and afterward? I think Citadel answered that perfectly. As far as everyone knows, Blake actively contributed to the Fall of Beacon, even though she saved Yang from Adam. I doubt anyone would know the deeper reasons for her involvement.

But ultimately, how does she reconcile with all that she has done? What drives her to stop running and confront her part in the Fall of Beacon? This would be a long and complex road, but one that ultimately needs to result in her return to RWBY and with Yang.

If we're sending in evil asks: just for the realm of what if.. what if Blake stayed with the White Fang, went to Beacon to be undercover with Cinder, still ended up on team RWBY and fell for Yang, and then ended up helping with the fall of Beacon?

Bridgy,this is...damn...

Like does Adam still show up at the Fall? And if so, how does Yang lose her arm....

"Blake? You're still with the White Fang and with...him?"

Blake couldn't meet her wounded gaze. "I..I am. I'm sorry Yang. This is who I am."

Adam smirked and walked in front of Blake. "So this is the human you told me about. I'm not impressed."

Yang's shock gave way to anger at his dismissal. "I won't let you hurt anyone else."

"Are you going to try to stop me, little girl?"

"Yang, please! Just go!!" Blake yelled but it was too late. Yang's eyes flashed crimson as she launched herself towards him.

With a swift move, Adam sliced Yang's arm off and the girl collapsed, unconscious but before he could strike again, Blake threw herself in front of her. "Don't do this, Adam!"

"You're defending a human, Blake?" he said coldly. "You know that's not our way."

Blake made a decision right then. "It should be." she said defiantly.

Adam let out a roar of outrage and swept his sword at Blake's neck. Fortunately he only destroyed one of the girls' shadow clones and he turned to see her carrying Yang out of the building.

Blake finally managed to reach the evacuation site and she handed Yang over to the medics, leaning down to brush her golden hair away from her face. "I'm sorry.....I'm so sorry!" she said, her voice cracking from grief. "This is all my fault and I don't expect you, any of you to ever forgive me. Goodbye Yang....I....I love you."

And with that she turned and fled into the darkness.

[evoldir]

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[cyberheart-01]

RWBY

Have some more beautiful people. I really like the faunist butler at the Schnee manor. He’s kinda cute with the beard scruff.

[birder-of-remnant]

Now, I would like to introduce part 2 of my top 12 list of obscure RWBY villians! Spoilers Ahoy! Naturally, this list also contains several spoilers for the various RWBY comics, manga, games, and splinter video series. Continue at your own peril! Starting with number 6 and working our way down to number 1.

6. Dr. Merlot - Honestly, I am a little surprised that I am placing Dr. Merlot this high on the list. If Hei Xiong is your standard mob boss-type villian, than Dr. Merlot is your poster child mad scientist. Basically like Arthur Watts, if Arthur was a flat Saturday morning cartoon villain. Stereotypical or not, he is still an entertaining villain in the game 'Grimm Eclipse' (as well as in the 'Combat Ready' board game). He even received the honor of having his own theme song, courtesy of Jeff and Casey Williams.

5. Master - This is perhaps the strangest entry on this list. The honorific of 'villain' is also a bit of a stretch. This one comes from Ruby's Anthology manga. In this manga, a mysterious red-cloaked figure begins causing mischief around Beacon. Stealing people's weapons, beating up upper classmen, and most grievously, ruining Juane's precious comic books. Ruby decides to take preemptive action to stop this doppelganger before an angry mob can form to beat the cookies and rainbows out of her. This Ruby lookalike is actually a berserk robot that Penny had borrowed as a surprise for Ruby. Together, they vanquish this creepy monstrosity right before a an oddly smiling Weiss murders Ruby for getting her sword broken. Honestly, this whole ordeal made no sense, but was surprisingly amusing.

4. Emperor of Mistral - Faunist slavery? Check. Cultural subjugation and attacks on the arts (except for himself). Check. Warmongering to expand his power. Check. Hypocritical booger-eater? Check. In other words, a real bog-sucking meanie-head. Dare I go on? He is only mentioned during the 'World of Remnant' series and so little is known about him other than for these charming traits. Still, I will place him at number 4 due to how well he fits the bill as an obscure villain.

3. The Warrior - An enigmatic servant of Salem, this villain is cut straight out of the 'Fairy Tales of Remnant'. In the story, 'The Infinite Man,' a group of people rally around a hero who is said to reincarnate. This group becomes 'The Circle,' an organization determined to protect humanity from the Grimm and bring peace to the land. And just like the Huntsman Academies that would serve the same role in the future, this society inevitably falls into ruin. The Warrior invades The Circle and challenges the Infinite Man to a battle. Through the ferocity of their fight, great damage is done to the town and The Infinite Man worries that nothing will be left if he continues the fight. This was his last and gravest mistake in that life. After forfeiting his life, The Warrior breaks her promise and kills nearly everyone. There are morals to this tale. But for those, you should read the book.

2. System No. XX - What do you get when you cross GLaDOS from Portal with Ellen DeGeneres (idk, she was the first witty person who came to mind)? This entertainingly psycho computer from the game 'Blaze Blue: Cross Tag Battle'. In it, warriors from four different universes (BlazBlue, Persona 4: Arena, Under Night In-Birth, and of course, RWBY) are trapped in a separate reality and forced to compete for survival in this comedic fighter game. I honestly have no interest in figher games. But the constant humor and surprisingly on-character dialogue from Team RWBY make the game surprisingly entertaining. I also just like how they were still students at the time they were abducted but are still able to kick butt against people like Ragna. ANYWAYS, System No. XX might be manipulative and cutthroat, but they sure know how to bring some levity to survival situations. Combine that with the RWBY-specific ending and they have landed on the number 2 spot for me (banner photo for this post is of Ruby fighting No. XX from this game). Definitely cut from a different circuit board than Penny, at least on the whole enslaving human souls' front.

The Crown - Those of you who have read the RWBY books will know what I am talking about. And those of you who haven't should be reading those books right now instead of this boring blog post. Or even better, listening to it. Following the happenings of Team CFVY after the Fall of Beacon, these books (excluding Roman Holiday) are wrapped up in a conspiracy brewing in Vacou over a mysterious group of people known as The Crown. I will not delve into it hear less I spoil the story, so I encourage any RWBY fan reading this to check it out for themselves. While the events in this book take place in Vacou between volumes 4 and 8, I doubt that Volume 10 will make many references to these events to avoid confusing the 99% of people who have not read these stories. But, I hope they add some easter eggs in at least! But first, we need to Greenlight Volume 10!

For the three of you who were bored enough to read this blog post, thank you! I am done rambling now, goodbye.

[birder-of-remnant]

I agree! Demagoguery and hate towards immigrants coupled with a long history of colonial exploitation by Atlas is going to be a weakness that Salem will exploit. Use the darkness in peoples' hearts to keep the world from uniting. And who better to do it than the Asturias twins (that jailbreak scene had me shaking!). I would also love to see Blake growing further into a civil leader!

Although trying to angle Blake as a rebel leader may be too combative this far into the story (I know, their words, not yours). Standing up to discrimination is vital and would have been a great position within the middle part of the series. But with Vale and Atlas gone, Mistral in disarray, and tensions in Vacuo palatably unstable, what the story needs is for her to be a bridge.

But I think the bigger problem is going to be between the people of Atlas and Vacou, rather than between faunists and humans. Vacou is a country of scarcity with a complex culture of self-preservation and reciprocity; they are an altruistic people, but you gotta earn it first. Not only does this contrast with Atlas's culture of privilege, but it is also hard to be altruistic when you are barely making ends meet yourself (this contrasts with immigrant discrimination within wealthy countries, where as you mentioned, xenophobia is the primary driver). Especially when the people begging are the ones that took everything from you to begin with. This may likely overshadow racial tensions and is a dangerous fault line.

Nonetheless, I hope we see more of Blake's activism! Blake taking a backseat in Atlas was a necessity; she had just come out of back-to-back seasons of extensive character development. By contrast, other characters like Nora, Ren, and Penny had been long neglected, relegated as fun but simplistic characters with little development. RWBY is a series limited only by funding (a single minute of animation costs >$25k), rather than by ideas. Honestly, there was no way to show off Blake more without screwing over some other character who needed the development more (like Penny). Hopefully, this will be an opportunity to expand her arc once again! (Although I really want to see CFVY get some development too). And people who think bumbleby ruined Blake's arc as a civil rights activist are being hypocritical.

But you may be right, my predictions are usually wrong anyways. And you have done your homework well. I'm also always happy to see someone referencing the books! Thanks for humoring my long-winded prattling

Volume 10 and/or 11 Theory: Salem, through Jax and Gillian, will sow divisions among the refugees by way of Faunus discrimination.

It's a classic tactic as seen with how capitalism feeds off of immigrants yet has white people blame them for "taking their jobs." It would be a good way to show Blake stepping up to grow up more into a civil leader and to show the White Fang maybe being the heroes if we follow up on Ilia's text from Ghira. Tackle the complexities of racial prejudice a lot better than Beacon did.

I say this because so many claim that Blake's been ruined by Bumblebee or that Atlas's fall ruined her character potential to be so sort of rebel leader. Well... here's a perfectly good place for her to tackle it with Atlesians forced to rub elbows with Faunus from Mantle. That's a recipe for disaster if the V9 epilogue is any indication.

[star-light-fae-art]

Quen confused over something. Did Sera do something again and poor Josie is tearing her hair out?

Eruno got grounded (again) by Eirai. No cookies for a few days.

I don’t draw her much anymore-but I haven’t forgotten about darling little Prue! I wonder why she’s embarassed-did someone give her a love letter perhaps?

Original emoji challenge done by @gidankuroki. Link to challenge: http://gidankuroki.tumblr.com/post/152778043945/so-i-did-a-thing-an-emoji-challenge-yeee

3 ocs from different fandoms! Wowza! (Dragon Age Inquisition, Tera Online, and RWBY)

[sytokun]

Been noticing a lot of oddly faunist fanart lately, just saying

[dragonthunders01]

As many know well the Cambrian is the beginning of our world’s biodiversity, is an advance follow up of the ediacaran flourish of life under the ocean, the major period of life diversification with the explosion and rise of the many major clades of animals that would establish for the next 500 million years, such as mollusks, annelids, arthropods, chordates, etc. as well alongside them some other very bizarre clades that arose and at the same time perished in that span which couldn’t leave any descendant after. The marine life grew up and became more from the pacific sessile or slow filter feeders or detritivorous ediacarans stuck in the sand, radiating into a crazy mosaic of different creatures nothing like anything that appeared before and establishing the bases for the dominant clades today, with different shapes, number of legs, numbers and shape of eyes, segments, and most important… in different sizes, mostly small, but some larger than the average…

For this chart I wanted to do something more than just pick the few largest animals of period which excess the meter long (which could have been just 2 specie), so I tried to see specimen size from all other clades known from the period, giving more variety of what some of the biggest animals were, even if they weren’t gigantic like most of actual fauna, of course with this I have to be a bit selective as not many clades really became enough large, at least in this chart the species I will expose are larger than 10 cm and noticeable enough, so even the largest animals of some clades here will be out for being very, very small…

The world in this point was pretty much the world of the Panarthropods, the major clade that includes all known Arthropoda and stem-arthropod, and there is no doubt that the Lobopodians were one of the major faunistic Panarthropods in many pelagic and benthonic niches, becoming some species iconic for its many bizarre forms and some others for their extraordinary sized, specially the Anomalocarids such as the iconic genus Anomalocaris with known specimens reaching lengths of around 60 cm to a meter long making it one of the biggest predators of the ocean at the period and being the first apex predator of history; there is also a tentative competitor for the position as the biggest lobopodians, as well the biggest animal of the period, the species Omnidens amplus (originally classified as a worm), only know by a preserved set of mouthparts, which scaled up with some relatives like the benthonic dweller Pambdelurion gives a size estimation of 1.5 to 2 meters long, but for the lack of a complete body makes difficult a properly size estimation.

Alongside the Lobopodians were also the myriad species of Arthropods, most of them were in the genesis of the clades that could come up millions of years after, just like Crustaceans, Chelicerata or Mandibulata, but in this point on time these weren’t yet a thing like they would be in next periods, instead the diversity of these was formed by other clades, specially a lot of stem-group outside euarthropods and still unknown to link clades as well others euarthropods unrelated to the major clades mentioned first; the pelagic Tuzoiid Tuzoia sp. was able to reach 18 cm long, the benthonic Sidneyia inexpectans with specimens reaching up 16 cm long and  the genus Branchiocaris pretiosa which reached up sizes around 15 cm long, not giants but still pretty large among their groups.

The Trilobites are one if not the major clade of arthropods for excellence during the Paleozoic, with different variety of species, being the Cambrian the pinnacle of its population clades with more than 60 families, most of these were around the lengths of less than 10 cm and often were the prey of bigger animals, but in some others places they were able to reach a very extraordinary size, being one of the biggest species known the redlichiide Acadoparadoxides briaerus from morocco, with specimens reaching up 45 cm long. Apart of trilobites, there were some other relatives which belongs to a major clade known as “Trilobitomorpha” which resemble them in certain anatomical features, but they weren’t true trilobites, such as the Helmetiid Helmetia expansa, a very large soft-bodied looking arthropod of around 27 cm long is one of the largest non-anomalocarids arthropods of burgers shell, and the Tegopeltidae Tegopelte gigas with a size of 19 cm.

The Archaeopriapulida (stem-priapulids) were other of the predatory benthonic animals of the Cambrian landscape, pretty much found burrowing in the sand and mud and protruding from their places, exposing a large proboscis they were mostly ambush hunters. The most well known is probably Ottoia for the common of its specimens, but these often doesn’t pass the length of 8 to 15 cm, but others were bigger that this one, a good example is the species Louisella pedunculata, which the largest specimen reached a size of 30 cm long with the proboscis extended.

One odd group among the Cambrian biota was the Vetulicolians, an enigmatic clade probably related to deuterostomes. These were weird arthropod-looking creatures that shown adaptations for pelagic lifestyle and mostly being filter feeders, many of these tended to be average lengths less than 10 cm, but Yuyuanozoon magnificissimi from comes to be the largest species known, with a length of 20.2 cm

The Chordates diversity during the Cambrian was formed by a small group of vermin agnatha forms, mostly swimming filter feeding of small size of few centimeters, the largest of these was Metaspriggina with specimens reaching up to 10 cm long which wasn’t that large size compared to many Cambrian lifeforms, was still an outstanding length compared to other of the chordates of the period.

Echinoderms were in their early genesis of its diversification with some unique morphology, so bizarre and alien compared to our actual species, as well there were others similar or very close in many aspect to actual ones, although most were very minuscule, some of the few macroscopic forms included, Lyracystis which is the largest eocrinoid with specimens reaching up sizes to 21 cm tall being half of it the arms.

Lophotrochozoa flourished during this period, evolving into the important clades including the very common brachiopods, the basic annelids and the Mollusks, although there were some species that could be classified as the last ancestors or stem-relatives of such clades, they don’t belong to these clades but they are coming to the roots of these, including Odontogriphus which specimens were able to reach up sizes around 12 cm long. Mollusks started their slow path into diversification with early small shelled varieties, most of them minuscule and don’t reaching up few centimeters of length, although few reached some considerable size for the average, such as the pelagic Nectocaris pteryx, the enigmatic cephalopod-like mollusk (?) with specimens reaching up sizes of 7 cm long.

Cnidaria are among the oldest animals on earth which during the cambrian expanded though the warm oceans either as jellyfish or small coral-like forms that could spread in the next periods, among some of these early species there was Echmatocrinus  which is a pretty robust form with a height of 18 cm tall.

Sponges were one of the major reef builders of the Cambrian, forming alongside other sessile lifeforms extensive biomes which thrived in the warm swallow oceans. Some of the biggest sponges found so far belong to the species Quadrolaminiella diagonalis which were barrel shaped sponge from the Chengjiang Fauna, with a height of 20 cm and a diameter of around 12 cm. Another species was Leptomitus, a very tall but thin kind of sponge from Burgers Shale, with specimens reaching up heights around 36.4 cm, but with a diameter less than a centimeter long.

A minor stuff worth to mention, other of the bizarre benthonic reef builders that dominated the Cambrian seabed were the archaeocyathids, a group formed by small conical shaped forms with some brachiating forms, similar in many ways to sponges except in inner structure, some of these often reached sizes of around 9 to 10 cm tall and some centimeters in diameter, but according to some mentions in websites and papers some were able to reach up even very larger sizes, with giant specimens reaching around 60 cm, but I wasn’t able upon this date to locate these very big forms so I couldn’t add them (either these are exaggerated estimations from fragmentary individuals or actually those were hinted from other fossil sponges)

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[maswartz]

I feel like having him taken out by a literal cattle prod is more Faunist than literally anything we see in the actual show.

I didn't bother doing a post on the previous episode of Fixing RWBY, but I can sum it up in two points:

Celtic Phoenix at one point makes a (pretty witty) joke about Pyrrha's bedroom being "spartan" in style. This is then ruined by him saying that he can't make many jokes because he's "streamlining" the volume. This is said during an episode of events that are entirely of his own creation and do absolutely nothing to further the plot whatsoever, continuing this trend of grinding the plot to a complete halt in Argus.

The episode focuses on JNR and Roman/Neo, and highlights the fact that Celtic Phoenix doesn't write groups of friends as squabbling assholes who can't get along for five seconds when those groups don't consist of multiple women. (Reminder: Celtic Phoenix added wholly-unnecessary and stupid drama between Nora and Pyrrha in his rewrite of the Beacon arc, creating hostility specifically and solely between the two women of Team JNPR.)

Now that we've gone through that, Episode 17 is about Team RWBY trying to get their friendship back on track! Because remember, streamlining! (Also this entire arc of Team RWBY being Women Can't Get Along is entirely of this misogynistic asshole's creation.)

Anyway, Ruby starts off by talking about how much fun she had with Team RNJR, continuing the trend of Ruby treating RNJR as more of her Real Team than RWBY. Ruby decides they'll all go to the beach!

Except it's freezing out, as the others point out.

Celtic Phoenix really has This Thing for writing the main protagonist of a series focused on female characters as a complete fucking idiot, and I have a solid idea why.

Anyway, afterwards they go to a cafe to warm Ruby up. Weiss whines about Yang drinking her tea hot, because again, Celtic Phoenix being a stupid fucking misogynist. Weiss offers to pay, but then passes the bill to Ruby, and somehow a bunch of drinks at a cafe are super expensive. This makes total sense.

Ruby then says that they can't go shopping afterwards then, so they go to a nightclub. In the middle of the day, when it's empty. Ruby messes up her dance and hurts herself, which makes all of her friends laugh at her(!!!). Yang calls Ruby "Rubes", which makes it even less subtle that Celtic Phoenix ripped off plot details from Volume 9 for his shitty rewrite.

They have a good time, and mock Weiss for not being able to dance(!!!). Somehow Ruby thought their day went poorly, probably because her friends haven't stopped being Women Can't Get Along. But then there's an alert from Cordovin!

They race over to find a bunch of Grimm having broken through the wall, plus a bunch of sliced-up soldiers and Huntsmen. Guess who, it's Adam! So Team RWBY run away from him on their vehicles.

Yes. Because literally the only fucking way Celtic Phoenix can make Adam intimidating is to treat the main heroines of the show as being utterly helpless against him.

And Adam chases after them. On foot, jumping from car to car. Their plan is to lure him to the military base. There's a fight scene, Adam gets unmasked and Weiss is made to care about this psycho piece of shit Celtic Phoenix wants you to care, he then kicks everyone's ass, and then he gets unceremoniously taken out by Cordovin with a cattle prod.

Really.

So, let us repeat: This guy who is so badass that Team RWBY flees in terror at the sight of him and is so badass that he can 1v4 them has been effortlessly taken out by

one drunk guy

one little old lady

But our protagonists aren't allowed to stand a chance against him.

Probably because they aren't a.) military, written by an alt-right POS or b.) men, written by a misogynistic POS.

And all of this is so desperate to make Adam this unstoppable hyper-badass who's so psychopathic and yet somehow you should feel empathy for him because his mom was abused. Celtic Phoenix so desperately wants Adam to be a badass that he proceeds to write him as an entirely uninteresting and pathetic antagonist. He just shows up to be an asshole, that's literally it. If Celtic Phoenix thinks Adam is somehow sympathetic by letting a swarm of monsters into an inhabited city, then Celtic Phoenix himself might very well be a psychopath too.

Volume 6 knew well enough to leave Adam until the end, because it understood tension and drama. It understood that Adam was a terrifying antagonist not because he was more powerful than Team RWBY combined, but because of the kind of hateful, abusive, obsessed psychopath he was. It allowed him to appear at the most dramatic moment possible, ambushing Blake when she was solo and vulnerable. He was pathetic as a person, yet terrifying in his desperation to harm and abuse Blake and Yang, and being strong in the ways Adam was weak was how Blake and Yang overcame him.

Here? Adam is a boring psycho who just shows up whenever Celtic Phoenix wants him to, everyone acts like he's the most badass person in existence, the titular heroines are reduced to helplessness in order to make him look threatening, and then he gets his ass kicked in the most anticlimactic, unfulfilling manner possible.

Because Celtic Phoenix is an incredibly shitty writer.

[odkrycia-nauce-i-foldery-online]

Non-invasive ecological research of wild fauna and flora in montagne and wetlands of Central Orient

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Non-invasive ecological research of wildlife in montagne and wetlands of Central Orient<< flesh record from quatl pietrzak<> 052019 quatlwork>

Article concern bright future for non-invasive monitoring of species and populations of megafauna of Central Orient, in the montagne & wetlands ecosystem hotspot. We should using camera-traps and video recording, as well as collect the excrements for quest unique quadrupeds in forest rocky and across mountainous areas or wetlands, where the species inhabits most remote areas. We are sure about their existence but the ecological and diagnostic research are on stage. One of them are pleistocene relic such autochtonic mountain ksy-gyik and pilose hare, both species living in fragmentary populations, other populations are alyn salamanders, small endemic rocky lizards and kazakh phoca. We ceriously take ethnozoological interviews with locals for studies in-depth. This is flesh record for intuitive decision making within sustainable growth of central Asia and new colony civilization of europeans. We focus on populations-ecosystem research on spatial ecology of few relic genres of montagne. Thus, one of them is non-invasive monitoring of flagship flora, terrestrial megafauna and herpetofauna. Those are faunistic and floristic studies from partnership and affiliate The League ECl, Euroayd Applied Ecology Research Centre EAERC and Living Beings Entertainment.

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Saturnalia tupiniquim

By Ripley Cook 

Etymology: Named for the Roman festival of Saturn

First Described By: Langer et al., 1999

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Saturnaliidae

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: 233.23 million years ago, in the Carnian of the Late Triassic

Saturnalia is known from the Alemoa Member of the Santa Maria Formation - it is also possibly known from Zimbabwe, but this assignment is dubious 

Physical Description: Saturnalia was probably a very early Prosauropod - aka, those dinosaurs that were more closely related to the large and famous Sauropods than any other kind of dinosaur (the official name for these dinosaurs being Sauropodomorphs). As an early Prosauropod, then, Saturnalia didn’t look very much different from other early dinosaurs - it was small, fluffy, squat, and bipedal. It was so much like other dinosaurs that it is often classified outside of Sauropodomorpha proper - and that continues to be a source of debate for these dinosaurs. In fact, according to some, it’s an early theropod!! More work is clearly needed, but regardless, Saturnalia was about 1.5 meters long and no more than a meter tall. It had a somewhat long neck - but no longer than other early dinosaurs, certainly not proper sauropodomorph length - and a small head. It had short arms, somewhat short legs, and a short tail as well. It was very slight, and had a skull like that of prosauropods, though its legs were more like those of theropods. Overall - a very average looking early dinosaur, and certainly very similar to the early Sauropodomorphs and the early Theropods of the time.

Diet: Saturnalia probably was an omnivore, feeding on both meat and plant food, at low levels of vegetation and mainly focusing on very small animals. Though it is also possible that it was a carnivore. 

By Rex Chen

Behavior: Saturnalia, regardless of its affinity, would have been a very skittish animal - avoiding predators in its environment at all costs, and running about on its tip-toes in order to avoid danger. It was probably at least somewhat social, given multiple skeletons have been found of it, though of course we cannot be certain of such. Regardless, it would have spent a large portion of its day foraging on food, looking around for leaves to strip from branches and small animals to catch in its mouth. It would have probably taken care of its young, and may have formed family groups to do so. The long-ish neck of Saturnalia would have allowed it to reach deeper into the plantlife in order to grab food out of reach.

Ecosystem: The Santa Maria Formation is a hotspot of early dinosaur diversity, showcasing especially the initial explosion of Sauropodomorphs after dinosaurs first appeared. This was an extensive floodplain environment, filled with seed ferns and conifers, giving Saturnalia good amounts of cover to protect it from other creatures. This was important, because Saturnalia was far from alone in its home. Here, there were predatory dinosaurs, such as the Herrerasaurid Staurikosaurus and the prosauropod Buriolestes; mystery dinosaurs like Nhandumirim; other early prosauropods like Pampadromaeus and Bagualosaurus; the Lagerpetid Ixalerpeton; the weird Aphanosaur Spondylosoma; large Loricatan predators like Rauisuchus, Procerosuchus, Prestosuchus, Decuriasuchus, and Dagasuchus; large herbivorous Aetosaurs such as Aetobarbakinoides, Aetosauroides, and Polesinesuchus; rhynchosaurs like Hyperodapedon and Brasinorhynchus; mystery reptiles like Barberenasuchus; Proterochampsids like Cerritosaurus, Chanaresuchus, Proterochampsa, and Rhadinosuchus; Erpetosuchids like Pagosvnator; and plenty of synapsids such s Chiniquodon, Candelariodon, Exaeretodon, Protuberum, Santacruzodon, and Trucidocynodon. In short - an extremely diverse and flourishing environment, showcasing the true weirdness that was the Triassic period. 

By Nobu Tamura, CC BY-SA 4.0 

Other: Was Saturnalia a theropod or a prosauropod? The jury is still out. Its back half looks much like that of a theropod, but its head? Similar to prosauropods. The most recent analysis has it as a sauropodomorph - probably - but people still debate, and arguments continue to go on. It is often considered a part of a bigger group of dinosaurs including animals like Guaibasaurus, but some of these animals in recent studies have been found as prosauropods, and some as theropods, breaking up the group. So, the scientists continue to debate, and the exact nature of Saturnalia remains a mystery - but, for now, we can probably still call it a Sauropodomorph, along with Pampadromaeus.

~ By Meig Dickson

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